Nurse/ Counselor at Population Council Nigeria

The Population Council is an international, non-profit, non-governmental institution that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and help achieve a humane, equitable and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Councils major program areas are HIV&AIDS, reproductive health and poverty, gender, and youth. The Council conducts biomedical, social science and public health research and helps build research capacities in developing countries. The Population Council works in collaboration with a broad range of Nigerian institutions. Due to expansion of its activities.
 
The Council is seeking qualified individuals to fill the below positions:

Job Title: Nurse/ Counselor

Location: Kaduna, Lagos

Job Description
The successful candidate will provide HIV counseling and testing, HIV/STI prevention education and STI syndromic management and other primary health care services at a newly established the community-based outpatient clinic for men and sex partners who engage in high behaviors that predispose them to increased risks of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications
The ideal candidates must have:

• Minimum of Bachelors of Nursing degree
• Minimum of 3 years relevant working experience in public or private, non-profit management. or related field.
• Basiccomputerskills and knowledge of MS Excel, Word, and PowerPointrequired.
• Ability and willingnessto travel within the country and across the region on a regularbasis
• Trained and certified counselor
• Strong analytic and communication skills, ability to write cleady and succinctly undortime pressure and to make well organized verbal presentations.

Application Closing Date
25th December, 2012

How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send an application letter ( stating your current salary and salary expectations and resume to: [email protected] , Stating clearly the position title for which you are applying and your full names.- starting with the surname first, then othernames (e.g. Program Coordinator(DoD) - BEN, Joshua Ekong) - in the subject area of the email. All attachments must be in PDF format.

Note

• Candidates who do not follow the above instructions will be automatically disqualified.
• Population Council reserves the right to cancel the recruitment process at anytime.
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. No phone calls, please.